Caden is a distinctive girls' name in United States, ranking #8117 in 2022 with 13 recorded births. The name reached its all-time peak in 2006 with 89 births ranking #2167. Since 1996, the popularity has increased by 116.7%. In 2022, approximately 1 in every 126,059 girls born was named Caden. STABLE Recent data shows the name is currently stable.
Caden is a modern English name that is sometimes connected to an Irish surname, but live source evidence shows its popularity owes much more to sound than to a clear old-name tradition. That makes it better described as a modern trendy form than as a neatly inherited Irish given name.
Behind the Name notes that Caden rose in America in the 1990s because it shared the fashionable -den sound with names such as Hayden and Aidan. That is a more reliable explanation of the name's modern life than forcing an exact literal meaning.